Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that nobody in the FCT Administration is being owed salary.
Olayinka disclosed this while reacting to the talks about non-payment of the outstanding 5-month wage award.
Featuring on Arise News Night Insight, Olayinka reaffirmed his earlier stance that the payment for FCTA workers has started.
He said: “Nobody in the FCT is owed salary, I have also received my December salary. Let’s not confuse the people, the issue you are talking about is about casual workers, casual workers in the sense that they are people that are engaged occasionally.
“You engage them when you need them, so they are not permanent workers. It’s just like you need bricklayers and you go to artisan market to pick two or three bricklayers to work with you, when they finish their job, they would go back home.
“The talk about non-payment of five months wage award, the payment has started, it’s already on. The talk about promotion allowance and elongation of tenure of Permanent Secretaries is not just the FCT.
“Things like that are done when you don’t want to disrupt a system that is running and somebody is there and you know that this person’s tenure of office has ended and there is no suitable person to replace him, it’s a normal thing that is done
“But the Minister has said if you don’t want it, I will not do it again, he has conceded.
“I know of a certain Director that should be retiring next month left to the Minister, because that Director has been very useful, very active, and very capable.
“Left to the Minister, he would say let me extend but he is not extending, it was discussed at the Exco meeting last week, there was no extension.”
